Full Moon Landscapes - Fred John Park - Leduc

I'm already looking forward to taking more full moon pictures next month.

 

 

Magical Moon

May Photowalk - Lois Hole Centennial Provincial Park - St Albert Alberta

 Kayakers enjoying a beautiful day 

 

Masses of cat tails surrounded the wetlands boardwalk. Great place for taking pictures of birds, however I missed that opportunity. It is now on my list for a return field trip.

 

One of the many great wildlife lookouts.

Pillars of a bridge that was once. What I did learn with this picture was how to remove light standards that took away from the view. New techy stuff for me.

                                         Who can resist Dandelions?

Its all about Light!

Evening walk created this interesting picture of a street light. I love how the light etched itself across the photo.

 

Evening stroll around Fred Johns Park

While strolling around Fred Johns Park, in Leduc Alberta, I couldn't resist yet another couple of sunset photos. Such a dramatic difference between the two. Amazing what a couple of settings changes can do.

This picture is so much softer and paint like. Same location. You will notice the trees at the right of the picture are the same ones as in the top picture.

Inland Grain Terminal

Inland Grain Terminal just outside Weyburn Saskatchewan

 

 

 Pointed my camera in the opposite direction to get this shot from the same location.

Sunset at Telford Lake - composition

As I live close by this lake, and it makes a such a good and willing subject, I shall forewarn you, there will be many photos of this subject.

I was working on composition tonight and had a difficult time deciding which looked best.

 

Shutter Bug Skill - #1

A brief reminder of what I was trying to achieve here.

Skill 1:

Find a stationary object and photograph it from the same position at sunrise, 12:00 noon, 6:00pm, and sunset. This is to show the color temperature, soft and hard light, light direction and shadows.

I think perhaps I took the sunrise one a little too soon, but with the angle that I had to take photo from, my spare room, I was limited as the sun shines directly on my window, which incidentally these photos are taken through. I did have an advantage here, that I could set up my tripod and take the same picture at the different time intervals.

                                                       Sunrise 6:16 AM

 

Noon 12:16 PM

                                    
                                                                6 PM

              Notice how the shore line on the left seems to be more highlighted.

                                                               8:30 PM

 

Such dramatic difference between the sunrise, sunset (softer) - but the day ones I notice the  blues and greens are more intense at 6ish.

 

Another new skill learnt - how to make a collage of my pictures.